When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

You are not what you seem. So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?

Orson Scott Card

Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Jan Zamoiski

It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

Marta Kristen

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Ramsey Clark

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

John Haggai

I don't take my fans' love and dedication for granted.

Wynonna Judd

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Desiderius Erasmus

When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

Katarina Witt